Former Mebane city councilman Bob Hupman was sentenced Monday to 17 months in federal prison for tax evasion.

Hupman pleaded guilty in May to obstructing and impeding due administration of internal revenue laws. Hupman hadn’t filed an individual income tax return since the 2006 tax year. He also hadn’t paid employment taxes since the third quarter of 2009 for his business, Security Concepts LLC, and didn’t pay federal unemployment taxes in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

A federal judge in Greensboro also ordered Hupman to pay $103,420 in restitution and comply with a year of supervision following his prison release.

Hupman’s defense attorney, Mark A. Jones, requested that the judge recommend to the Federal Bureau of Prisons that Hupman be housed at Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner “or as close to his home (in Mebane) as possible.” Through a motion filed Monday morning, Jones said the government typically consents to those types of housing requests.

The prison complex at Butner includes two medium-security prisons and a low-security prison.

Hupman was on the Mebane City Council for 28 years, between November 1981 and March 2009. When he resigned from the city council, he was listed at the top of the state’s delinquent taxpayers. At that time, he owed the N.C. Department of Revenue nearly $2.2 million in back taxes.

He faced a maximum of three years in prison, one year of supervised release and a maximum fine of $250,000, the U.S. Department of Justice said in May. Sentencing in the case was originally scheduled for Aug. 29 but was continued several times by attorneys for both sides.

According to court documents, Hupman managed Security Concepts, a security alarm company based in Mebane. Instead of receiving a salary from his company, Hupman received income by using a Security Concepts debit card to pay his expenses. Despite receiving over $770,000 through the card between 2007 and 2011, Hupman hadn’t filed an individual income tax return since tax year 2006.

He also failed to comply with financial regulations for the business. Hupman withheld employment taxes from employees’ wages but didn’t pay didn’t pay the taxes or file the required documentation since the third quarter of 2009. He didn’t pay the federal unemployment taxes owed, or file the required tax forms, for years 2009, 2010, or 2011.

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